Settling in

Easy morning, I wanted to get the cowboy gear settled while it was cool.   Well, that didn’t quite work out because it was warm all night so there never was a “cool” part of the morning.  Nevertheless I got the truck rearranged and the garage rearranged with all the clothes and gear accessible.  Room in the truck for Mike’s gear and mine. He is riding with me so he can leave his Jeep for the ladies to use.

Dakota Joe arrived at noon and got settled too.  Then we all went tot he range to get our registration goods and look around.  We checked the 10 stages, they look good and should be fun.  We also toured those half of the vendors who were open and made a couple purchases.

Mike cooked and hosted dinner for all of 8 of us.  Tasty as always!

Despite all of that neither of us took a single photo all day.

It’s nice out now.  Cool and comfortable.  We are sitting on the campsite patio.  

It looks like the moon and Jupiter are in conjunction.

Missed this one last night

She really just wanted to swim today

We left her in the AC cooled trailer when we went to the range

Actually just a gratuitous Skye photo

Gainesville FL until April 7

A nice short drive to the Santa Fe Palms RV Resort.  Met Gun E Bear & Becky here, camped right beside them.  ET & Dawn are across the road and Dakota Joe will be on the other side of Mike tomorrow.  Also met Canby & Doc while walking around the neighborhood.

We went out to the pharmacy and grocery shopping this afternoon.  Had to get breakfast supplies for the cowboys for later this week!

It seems that the range is only 10 minutes away, that’ll be nice.

It was a bit foggy this morning but it cleared up soon.

The only sunset color we had was in the east!

Mike cooked supper and then brought out some excellent birthday cake!

Tallahassee day

Not much of a rainy day until late afternoon.  We did camp stuff in the morning and then went out to a good lunch.  The Crafty Crab is a nice little restaurant with a lot of good seafood offerings.  I had a delicious shrimp boil, medium heat Cajun  seasoning  with corn on the cob and a few baby potatoes all done in the seasoning.  10 big shrimp, ate them all!  Carlene’s catfish, sweet potato fries and hush puppies was also very good.

After lunch we found the Lafayette Park with a nice trail going around the Piney Z Lake.  The Lafayette Heritage Trail.  A 3 mile loop.  Skye wanted to get wet but it was too late in the day, again.  Lots of birds around the trail.  Carlene had Merlin (her bird song app) identifying them up to 6 at a time.

A quick fuel and milk stop on the way back and then it started to rain.  Really heavy steady rain with plenty of Thunder & Lightning.  Made it home to close the windows before things got too wet.  It didn’t last all that long.  And now there are five more campers here.  

The boil is served in its cooking bag

And Crab Rangoons

This is a fishing finger, a sprit of land jutting out into the lake to increase available shoreline for fishing.

A pair of geese on a finger

This big boardwalk was on the north side of the lake

This boardwalk is built like a trestle!

And for good reason.  The boardwalk goes over the railroad.  

We were just in time for this train to pass by

This water fountain and dog bowl were at a trail intersection 

Tallahassee, FL Auto Museum

The Tallahassee Automobile Museum is still one more fine Harvest Host stop.  We are here for 2 nights.  We made our final time zone change today, back in EDT.

The museum is quite large and on 2 floors.  Several dozen cars, some pianos, Remington bronzes, motorcycles, knives, a police badge & patch collection, dozens of outboard motors, dolls, even Batmobiles …

We spent a few hours touring all of that. We have a big field that we share with 2 other HH campers.  We have seen them but not met them.  

These are half of the photos from today.                     

First thing I noticed when driving in was the Tie fighter

The panel folds are supposed to go this way, but so what

The “Bandit’s” Trans Am

(Smokey & the Bandit)

OK, this is a much later model, but they credit the movie with a big surge in Trans Am sales

A Deusenberg!

1951 Harley 3 wheel police bike

1951 Florida State Trooper

The ‘51 trooper has a single action revolver

In a right hand holster, worn on his left side

With the pistol backwards in the holster

😆😂

Museums can be so much fun!

Numerous Frederic Remington Bronze statues 

One of a kind hand built motorized wagon

Frank Snell, 1900, Watertown NY

The doll collection

Motorcycles

Elmer Keith’s 2 guns and rig

The Police collection

1926 Johnson outboard

I had one very similar when I was a teenager

Stanley Steamer

Notice the horn, and the tube to the squeeze bulb